A WARNING ABOUT STRING FATIGUE It is really best to have a second guitar tuned to your favorite/most used open tuning.

Re-tuning strings wears them out quickly due to metal fatigue. Frequent retuning will diminish the brightness of strings quickly and increase the likelihood of strings breaking. Buy several sets of extra strings before you begin learning alternate tunings. This is a list of some popular songs which use alternate/open tunings. There are many more, especially Celtic traditional DADGAD songs. Song (artist) tuning (654321) Drop-D songs Can't Find My Way Home (Blind Faith) DADGBe Wondering Where the Lions Are (B.Cockburn) DADGBe Dear Prudence (Beatles) DADGBe Mobile (Who) Double Drop-D songs Cinnamon Girl (Neil Young) DADGBd Ride My Llama (Neil Young) DADGBd War Of Man (Neil Young) DADGBd Black Water (Doobie Brothers) DADGBd Ohio (Crosby, Stills, Nash) DADGBd You Don't Have to Cry (Stills) DADGBd DADGAD D-modal songs Kashmir (Led Zeppelin) DADGAD Black Mountain Side (Led Zeppelin) DADGAD Song For George (Eric Johnson) DADGAD "SLACK KEY" open G songs In My Time of Dyin' (Led Zeppelin) DGDGBd (open G) Start Me Up (Rolling Stones) DGDGBd Honky Tonk Women (Rolling Stones) xGDGBd Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones) DGDGBd Can't You Hear Me Knockin' (Rolling Stones) DGDGBd Spanish Flangdang (Elizabeth Cotton) DGDGBd Walking Blues (R.Johnson, see EC "Unplugged") DGDGBd Rolling and tumbling (Clapton) " Running on faith (Clapton) " Motherless Child (Clapton "From the cradle") " Bad to the Bone " All Down the Line (Stones) " Can't You Hear Me knockin' (Stones) " Tumblin' Dice (Stones) " Sweet Virginia (Stones) " Easy to Slip (Little Feat) " Jesus Just Left Chicago (ZZ Top) " Squeezebox (the Who) " Fearless (Pink Floyd) " Love At The Five And Dime (Nanci Griffith) " capo 3 The Circle Game (Joni Mitchell) " Little Green (Joni Mitchell) " Marcie (Joni Mitchell) " Others: Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell) EBEG#Be

She Talks To Angels - (The Black Crowes) EBEG#Be

Nathan LaFraneer (Joni Mitchell) CGDGBd Morning Morgantown (Joni Mitchell) CGDGBd Cold Blue Steel (Joni Mitchell) CGDGBd Sweet Fire (Joni Mitchell) CGDGBd Don't Interrupt the Sorrow (Joni Mitchell) CGDGBd

Wonderwall (Third Eye Blind) use partial capo F#BEAC#e

Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (Stephen Stills) EEEEBe Carry On (Stephen Stills) or 1/2 step flat EEEEBe Love the One Your With (Stephen Stills) CGCEGc Deja Vu (Crosby, Stills, Nash) EBDGAd Guinnevere (Crosby) EBDGAd

Rain Song (Led Zeppelin) DGCGCd (open Gsus4) Seen All Good People (Yes) EGCGCe (open C, capo 4)

Vincent Black Lightning (Richard Thompson) CGDGBe Come On In My Kitchen (Robert Johnson) EAEAC#e (open A)

Unverified/Unknown alternate tuning songs First Girl I loved (the Incredible String Band) Sailor's Grave on the Prairie (Leo Kottke or Tinsley Ellis) Water Song (Hot Tuna) All Apologies (Nirvana) Midnight Rider (Allman Bros.) The Poet Game (Greg Brown) Dancin' Days (Led Zeppelin) -maybe double drop D ? Bad Motor Scooter (Montrose) -probably open G ?